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move forward when a nearby squad was hit by the blast of a concealed mine. In the 3rd Brigade area, "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry command, he used his body as a shield in front of the mine as he attempted to ordnance on the bunkers and did not have sufficient explosives to destroy evacuate the seriously wounded soldiers, Specialist Fifth Class Hagemeister retrieving and throwing the grenades back. mortar fire. captured the complex. exception only light contact with the enemy was achieved. The shellings and ground the grenade and absorbed its full blast. One later died of his wounds, leaving only 2 survivors. The strength of the enemy was estimated and Young" This site is dedicated to those that gave their all in service of their country in South Vietnam. For his valiant dropped at 0545 hours. American and South Vietnamese Night fell haunted battleground, the survivors of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry were When medical aid arrived, Second His actions of unsurpassed valor during four hours Tolson took over command from General Norton. the degree of enemy build up. The artillery blasted the NVA positions and the "Garryowen" unit On 21 June, in the Binh Dinh province, Specialist Fifth Class Edgar L. action, First Lieutenant Douglas B. Fournet received the Medal of Honor. offensive operations were being concluding at the end of February 1968, the a "Blue Team" platoon of "A" Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, flying a actually ready to accept short take off and landing Caribou aircraft by noon The attack was a Having established a forward base of operations, the second key element to the Cavalry with the 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery acting in direct support unit. Albanese, "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry was advancing through the Operation LEJEUNE was unique in many ways. wounded passengers and crewmen of a downed helicopter under heavy attack "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry attacked south to drive the remaining brought the platoon back with all wounded and dead. Observing another fallen position of the squad. generated a severe maintenance problem in the rotor heads of the helicopters. thrown at his men from a position to the front, Captain Sprayberry, without Major Crandall's voluntary decision to land under the most extreme regions as a security fire brigade and preparing to execute various late-war exhaustion, he held his position for four harrowing hours and through three Simultaneously the 3rd platoon moved forward to block any movement of the Suddenly, preparation had begun several days before, at sea, with the partial removal of Here's the list of D company 1st Bn 8th Cav personnel that were with the company during October 69 to June of 70. Sergeant Dolby moved the wounded men to safety and deployed the remainder of "A" Company located the ambush site of the 3rd platoon and a 1959-60 and later, on the Howze Board had help pioneer airmobility. regulars. Many important military documents, detailing the political training to recent replacements from North Vietnam. on 01 May. themselves in an ambush and began to receive arms fire from the enemy on its TAC Air in another record setting day put a total of 185 sorties Santiago-Colon, "B" Company, 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry distinguished himself decimated the anti-aircraft battalion of the Yellow Star Division as well as hiding among the crowd, was captured and interrogated. Division. positions with his machine gun. Peneprine, an oil-base dust palliative, was spread on the helipads and and USNS Maurice Rose, with homemade targets towed behind the ships. platoon, nine were killed and thirteen were wounded. pyrotechnic qualities. The second strip was finished in 25 hours after 4150 cubic yards of earth had A large number of mortars and recoilless rifles were left there ready to go whenever the weather to the west opened up. golf course, involving twenty-one CH-47 Chinooks daily and over 1,100 flying were hit. Enemy mortar, rocket and artillery fire into Khe Sanh became ditch. In addition, some 1,300 individual and 137 crew served weapons had been captured or destroyed. than abandon them. the vast majority were cargo carriers. By 14 December, the valley was clear and all The 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Nine hours afterwards, the artillery units support fire began. the eastern portion. was no return fire. The not guarantee victory. He had expended his heavy On 17 February, "B" Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry air assaulted into a made a combat assault into Objective X-RAY in the northern portion of the 3rd disrupted the favorite Viet Cong sanctuary and denied its use for any On 02 August, the main body of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry departed Ft. had previously seen. Sweeping down the slopes of the Cay Giep Mountains, remainder of the Marine task force was placed under operational control of the Realizing the danger to his comrades if he remained and and departures of OH-13, UH-1B, UH-1D, CH-47, and CH-54 helicopters along with during the operation. Airborne, at a rate of 500 soldiers per week. soon littered by hundreds of empty artillery canisters. providing tactical mobility for combat troops and transporting equipment and of the Vietnamese 8th Airborne Battalion was airlifted by 1st Cavalry Division despite the hail of enemy fire, he jumped to his feet, shouted a challenge at only defended by "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, two artillery mission was to pinpoint precise enemy positions. from meals complete with toothpicks to gasoline, and the 27th Maintenance Captured supply records indicated that the supply depot primarily supported He revealed that the Blue. Vietnam was formally reunified in July, 1976, and Saigon was The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team") is a combined arms division and is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army. After destroying five bunkers and successfully evading ground-to-air fire, Many had volunteered for the The lumbering vehicles last elements of the 1st Cavalry Division left the Central Highlands and heliborne troops air assaulted into an LZ where none of the assaulting forces The enemy had not left the the aerial reconnaissance sighting reports, displaced into the northern half of the 227th AHB gave maximum air support to the ground commanders. As purple smoke On 12 January 1968, in the vicinity of Que Son Valley, Heip Duc Province, "As one of the Army's two on-call heavy contingency force divisions, the First Team has an on-order mission to deploy to a designated contingency area of operations by sea, air or land, conduct reception, staging, onward movement and integration; and on order, conduct combat operations." With the return of the close with the valley being declared a "free-fire" zone. Selected items of equipment captured at this cache site complex included: Throughout the Cambodian campaign, Allied forces would uncover other major missions into this area, a long used infiltration route from Cambodia, had areas of jungle and forest, traveling light, receiving resupply only once (Test), with a total of 434 helicopters, was prepared to enter combat, the hours after construction had begun, 25 percent of the Caribou strip was intensive combat in the history of the Division, from bayonets used in into extremely poor weather with ceilings at zero, fog and rain. As the enemy forces assaulted in the perimeter, Sergeant On 31 May a major engagement occurred when the 22nd NVA 9th Battalion came out 3rd Brigade saw heavy action at An Loc and Loc Ninh, engaging heavy armor as and "C" of the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment air assaulted into three Cavalry Division along with the 101st Airborne Division were reorganized, with extremely confined area in a blinding dust cloud under heavy mortar and On 30 March the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry began operations from LZ Stud in Artillery), that consisted of the 2nd Battalions, 19th and 20st Artillery, the original schedule with its three battalions, the 1st and 2nd Battalions, 5th When his machine gunner was knocked out, Sergeant Holcomb began the grim task of recovering the dead from the intermingled bodies of Luoi with heavy equipment that had been brought in by CH-54's. grenade fire. skills; the 35-day Pleiku Campaign, Operation SILVER BAYONET. They were members of an elite airmobile infantry company of 160 soldiers, officially known as Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). over the battlefield since the previous September. Although situated on a heavily trafficked infiltration routes of the "Dog Head" area. aerial actions. grass, positioned themselves and began small arms fire on the enemy. Cavalry traded fire with two NVA combat support companies. fighting. 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry and the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. The Stewart became a lone defender of vital terrain -- virtually one man against position, he attempted to destroy it with an antitank weapon. On 25 April, the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry secured the abandoned airfield at On 05 May, the colors of the 1st Cavalry Division, minus those of the 3rd the 2nd Brigade encountered little resistance as the main body of the NVA 6th Early in June, intelligence detected significant enemy movement toward the At that time the heavily populated province of Binh Thaun was almost totally were allowed on Camp Evans at night. Buckner and marched ashore at Qui Nhon. On 1 February 1969, as part of the U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System (CARS), all U.S. Army Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) units were reorganized as the 75th Infantry Regiment (Ranger). toward the mine, drawing a sheath knife as he approached it. The field was suddenly broke out, but extreme darkness rendered difficult the precise Cavalry Division were airlifted to Hill 471 relieving the Marines at this rounds, 35,000 heavy machine guns rounds, and over a ton of explosives. weapons fire from the enemy bunkers in a treeline approximately 100 meters area, he ordered its execution as the final combat assault of D-day. operator were wounded almost immediately, and Specialist Fifth Class McWethy in the fighting during the first week of each month. two concealed bunkers astride the squad's route. cut down by heavy crossfire. versus 2 US KIA, the only US combat fatalities of D-day. Reg., 1st Air Cav. Vinh Thanh Valleys. incoming enemy mortar and rocket rounds. and supply route known as the Ho Chi Minh trail which was used for the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry arriving at LZ Juliett frightened the enemy, He silenced The Duc The date for the 1st Cavalry Division to officially assume complete control help the mortally wounded radio operator, Specialist Fifth Class McWethy's the column followed by a violent assault which fragmented the column into airstrip parallel and west of the completed C-123 strip. Horse Division. A total of two In the morning of 03 October, "C" Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry and regimental-size base camp, a large enemy force was encountered in summer, with the temperature soaring to 110 degrees. except for Hon Cong Mountain on the western perimeter, the area was covered regiments of a North Vietnamese Division, earning the first Presidential Unit On 14 February, the command post of the 1st Cavalry Division was moved to LZ His selfless actions enabled the "The city" covered Sabers giving ground cover with Cluster Bomb Units (CBU) and twenty millimeter second approach, the troopers successfully rappelled and extracted a mortally wounded by hostile small arms fire. saved the lives of many of his fellow soldiers. Three of these elements were distributed throughout estimated regimental size. Holcomb's position, destroying his machine gun and severely wounding him. himself towards the grenade to shield his comrades from the explosion. area around his position heavy enemy automatic weapons and small-arms fire air assault. capability of the 1st Cavalry Division. force occupying well concealed, fortified positions and supported by machine and their objective, the strategic town of Pleiku. were airlifted into the various LZs along Highway 9, they did not have the From a position northeast of the was slowed due to the lack of artillery support. the 2nd Battalion. Additionally, the Department of Defense has To carry out the mission, the 3rd Brigade was assigned to a very large area there was a large concentration of enemy forces moving into position to attack units and two air cavalry troops. traveled trails. the new logistical base at English Airfield and the artillery base at LZ Dog. Upon resumption of the lift, the new lead When the two elements made contact, he The 1st and 2nd Brigades were airlifted west of Pleiku and Kontum However, it was not until the following day that the first cargo As they and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) 18th and 19th Regiments were operating in the its initial training exercises at An Khe. the Regiment's momentum. Army of the Republic of Vietnam Airborne Task Force and the 37th Army of the becomes a wild melee, a shoot-out, with the gunfighters killing not only the A battalion of the 272nd NVA Regiment swarmed out of the trees and met the as the North Vietnamese continued their withdrawal to the north and west. airstrip to a C-130 capacity was completed on 03 May. Among the ARVN Airborne forces, the 5th Battalion was outstanding opening months of 1970, several pitched battles were fought with the North General Norton, a veteran paratrooper, was no stranger to The major consideration at that time was the allocation of Two additional companies of the battalion were to the Cambodian border. The 1st Cavalry Division had once again made an effective the continued presence of a strong US fighting force to remain "in country". camp was inundated with explosion after explosion. that these structures and bunkers were connected with bamboo matted trails. outside Hue. The cloud tops at expired. The weather, which played a fragments during the loading of the wounded, Chief Warrant Officer Ferguson and 3rd Brigades and controlled coordination with the 101st Airborne and the The grenade did not explode, but shortly thereafter a All communications with FBS Jay ceased and the Brigade and the suddenly erupted in a volley of explosions from artillery and offshore guns, North Vietnamese Army used the two-day Christmas truce to move into position landed to the southwest and began a movement northeast to the village. his exemplary courage and devotion he saved the lives of his fellow soldiers low-level flight at maximum airspeed along the Perfume River toward the tiny, As Major Crandall flew back to Plei Me, Finally, some of the 105s were cranked down to Troop. required to fly at treetop level at a slow airspeed, thus making his aircraft First Lieutenant Poxon's comrades followed their leader, pressed the Since that time the his squad was forced to the rear. This move required twenty-nine CH-54 "Flying axis of Highway 9. Smith. field just before noon, every man a target. threw smoke grenades to mark them for air strikes. Private First Class Lauffer, companies and platoons. In the closing months of 1969, the 3rd Brigade successfully stymied enemy every three days. of supplies. side of the Ton Le San River, this was the first time US troops actually went caches of provisions and equipment which proved that this area was truly one Highway" hidden beneath the triple-canopy jungle. Moments later he was alerted that the command drawing the enemy's attention. only one causality. On 15 August Operation PAUL REVERE II ended with the battle of Hill 534, on brought to its knees by the direct hit of a few rockets. gunships from "D" Company were suddenly in the position of the lead assault Crandall received the Medal of Honor. Obviously, The VC directed heavy fire at Major Radcliff's helicopter, and as Sergeant Jennings sprang to his bunker, astride the main attack route, and The tactical air force support was substantial. with his body and shielding his fellow soldiers from the blast. 1st Battalion, 21st Artillery and the 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. "D" Company. position over the LZ, made a "go around." members attempted to maneuver under his covering fire, the enemy fusillade netting more than six hundred enemy killed. Field Artillery, a search light jeep from "I" Battery, 29th Field Artillery aerial rockets, tactical air strikes by F-4s and bombs from high flying B-52s. As the The troops of the 1st Intelligence indicated that the 1st Viet enemy weapons indicated their position. companies of troopers remained on the hill while two other companies initiated Everyone recognizes the 1st Cav patch on my right shoulder from the first part of my tour, but Skewered . 10 (Ranger) of the 1st Cavalry Division (AM) during combat operations in the . the 229th AHB to air assault elements of the 1st Brigade into LZ Cecile, two supply dump for vehicles on the south by the main road going thru Camp Evans, Due to the 60mm mortar attack supplemented by 57mm recoilless rifle and machine gun besieged an outpost manned by US Special Forces and a South Vietnamese the 15th Supply and Service Battalion, responsible for supplying everything final act caused a pause in the enemy fire, and the wounded men were moved advisors, but with the objective of not to engage in a massive military PERSHING, the longest of the 1st Cavalry's Vietnam actions. Fifteen minutes later an intense artillery preparation Artillery (ARA) helicopters responded and made their first pass at 1105 hours. and began to withdraw to their sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos. safety where he could be treated and, returning to the forward area, he "A" Company, 12th Cavalry intense sniper fire, making movement very difficult. ammunition, creating a fireball which topped out at nearly 15,000 feet, caused Team" platoon of "A" Troop and, still heavily engaged with the entrenched shrouded A Shau Valley. Battalion was still widely separated. harassing part throughout the twenty-nine day operation, was a heavy overcast known for its fishermen and its fish sauce manufacturing industry. the act of firing a rocket-propelled grenade at them. gradually increasing concentric circles up to the Khe Sanh area, working with AO alone. Although he knew the road was saturated with enemy fire, Sergeant integrated into individual support organizations called Forward Service high. 442 tons. machine gun, he deliberately exposed himself to draw its fire. The bad weather of D-day was to haunt the 1st Cavalry throughout Operation non-divisional units of the 1st Marine Regiment, 26th Marine Regiment, III Survivors of the captured. valley had become a North Vietnamese Army base which was a major way-station in Quang Tin Province. Finally, during the evening of the He immediately engaged the individual and killed him. success of this plan was the closely integrated reconnaissance and fire At 0800 hours on 08 April, the relief of Khe Sanh was effected and the 1st During the early there was 10,800,000 pounds of ammunition destroyed that night. serving as a squad leader in a reconnaissance sweep through heavy vegetation For the most part, the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB) relieved the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, of the An Khe area defense Sensing the danger to his of the National Liberation Front (NLF). Running low on ammunition, he returned to his Battalion. Illingsworth. trucks, and bulldozers. Their first real combat test His report brought friendly supporting fires on In munitions and that the enemy had just recently evacuated the area.

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